Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Liveline Technologies Inc. manages a company patent portfolio within the Computing & Software technology area. This portfolio currently includes 3 pending office actions distributed across 2 distinct art units. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners suggests a varied examination experience for the applicant, as each pending matter is being handled by a different individual. This one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners indicates that no single examiner's specific tendencies will dominate the prosecution strategy for the entire portfolio.
The presence of 2 distinct art units implies that the Computing & Software innovations are being evaluated under different classification standards. COOK, BRIAN S, identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, represents a portion of the current pending workload. This decentralized structure requires counsel to adapt to multiple examiner styles simultaneously. Practitioners should note that the workload is spread across 3 distinct examiners, as the busiest examiner is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution provides an opportunity to test different arguments across the 3 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOK, BRIAN S | 1 | 62.2% | +29.2% |
| HALES, BRIAN J | 1 | 77.7% | +30.2% |
| HALE, BROOKS T | 1 | 51.1% | +34.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18300632 | DUAL-MODEL MACHINE LEARNING FOR PROCESS CONTROL AND RULES CONTROLLER FOR MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT | HALES, BRIAN J | 17d overdue |
| 18056391 | OBJECT-BASED DATA SCIENCE PLATFORM | HALE, BROOKS T | 16d overdue |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18300632 | DUAL-MODEL MACHINE LEARNING FOR PROCESS CONTROL AND RULES CONTROLLER FOR MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT | HALES, BRIAN J | 17d overdue |
| 18056391 | OBJECT-BASED DATA SCIENCE PLATFORM | HALE, BROOKS T | 16d overdue |
| 18308853 | STRUCTURED DATA MODEL AND PROPAGATION THEREOF FOR CONTROL OF MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT | COOK, BRIAN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2125 | 1 |
| 2166 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18308853 | STRUCTURED DATA MODEL AND PROPAGATION THEREOF FOR CONTROL OF MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT | COOK, BRIAN S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18300632 | DUAL-MODEL MACHINE LEARNING FOR PROCESS CONTROL AND RULES CONTROLLER FOR MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT | HALES, BRIAN J | 2125 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 18056391 | OBJECT-BASED DATA SCIENCE PLATFORM | HALE, BROOKS T | 2166 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2022 |
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